On Nik. Fabrikant and His Article
On Nik. Fabrikant and His Article

Summary/Abstract: Nik[olai] Fabrikant was the pseudonym of Ivan Krevets'kyi, a well-known Ukrainian intellectual who functioned as a historian, a bibliographer, and a civic activist in Austrian-ruled Galicia. In 1905, Krevets'kyi (under his pseudonym) published in Russian his arguably most famous polemical piece on the Russian censorship of Ukrainian literature in the Russian liberal periodical Russkaia mysl' (Russian Thought), one of the most widely circulating Moscow journals (with around 14,000 subscribers at its peak). Krevets'kyi’s “Kratkii ocherk iz istorii otnoshenii russkikh tsenzurnykh zakonov k ukrainskoi literature” (“A Brief Outline of the History of the Treatment of Ukrainian Literature by the Russian Censorship Laws”) was not an original publication but rather a revision of the author’s Ukrainian-language article “Ne bylo, net i byt' ne mozhet!” (“There Has Not Been, Is Not, and Cannot Be!”)1 published in 1904 in the prime Ukrainian journal Literaturno-naukovyi visnyk (Literary Scientific Herald), a literary and scholarly periodical founded by historian Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi with the participation of such luminaries as Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatiuk.

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